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Snow in Dorking. I repeat snow in Dorking
It’s not actually falling, just whirling around in the wind...
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1 hour ago, John Stevens said:
Temps steadily dropping here in Holmbury St Mary at 184asl, that's my height, the village is about another 60m lower.
Ah, you are just under five miles away (and over 100 metres up) from me - I hope you do well out of this!
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4 minutes ago, Radiating Dendrite said:
Just in the valley, only 80m asl but it helps. Hills around reach up to 160m, so they usually do well.
Expecting a few inches tonight hopefully.
I am at 60m asl between Box Hill (224m) and Holmbury Hill (261m) in Dorking so often in a bit of a rain/snow shadow!
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3 minutes ago, Radiating Dendrite said:
Purley - top end / bottom bit of greater London.
I know it relatively well!
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So, I booked a trip to Canada and the States for early Feb so I would definitely see some snow/cold weather (and to see some family I guess). Last year I took off from Heathrow in Storm Emma. I posted through it on here as The plane was de-iced then the runway was closed and the plane was de-iced again. I fly out on Saturday and land in Calgary before travelling on to Banff where, come Sunday, I should expect a high of -23 and a wind chill of -30. I am actually quite worried about it and I think my adventure in the Rockies is going to end up being a few days spent in a hotel room .
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33 minutes ago, Radiating Dendrite said:
Upgrade for me on the meto - more heavy snow symbols for longer.
Where abouts in Surrey are you? General area if you don’t want to disclose sensitive info
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6 minutes ago, Nqp15hhu said:
Lovely!
7 minutes ago, weathergeek said:My childhood home of Boxhill called me and I knew it would give me some magic since my now hometown let me down, lol! Notice the one at the top where it's all white but green in the distance downhill!!
Ah, glad it paid off for you and glad I could help make sure it was not a wasted trip!
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11 hours ago, weathergeek said:
Thank you FLW!! Snow starting to settle here in Ashtead so have higher hopes for Boxhill!
More snow up on Box Hill than down here at 60 metres above sea level!
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5 minutes ago, weathergeek said:
Might be worth me trying to get up Boxhill tomorrow then, if there was snow at the top of Pebble Hill..... that's if I don't slide back down, lol!
If I remember, I will walk to work the way that I can see Box Hill and let you know how it looks.
Nothing was settling but it was about an hour ago now!
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Drove from Purley Way to Dorking about 7-7:30 (was there to buy some cheap warm gear for my trip to the Canadian Rockies on Saturday) and it was raining then very very heavily sleeting then snowing at the top of Pebble Hill. Driving down into town and it turned back to sleet but now it’s snow. I think the MetO will be spot on with their ice warning, there’s so much standing water out there - massive puddles on main roads. Be safe tomorrow folks.
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Absolutely stunning walk to work through Dorking this morning, although only just thawed out...
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Finally properly snowing in Dorksville after walking home in the cold cold slizzle!
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3 minutes ago, weathergeek said:
Beautiful fat falling flakes here in Ashtead (nr Epsom)!!! I might have to be taking a trip up to the Downs or Boxhill tomorrow morning!xx
As far as I can see there is no snow in the Box Hill neck of the woods (although it’s now quite dark so it may have started falling!)
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3 minutes ago, John Stevens said:
Reports of snow nin Dorking...however, nothing west of Dorking in the Surry Hills.....snow shield fully operational..
I am in Dorking and I can’t see any snow out the office window yet...
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11 minutes ago, Steve Murr said:
Good stuff - the top of box hill is 225M IIRC
Still falling sporadically to 100 metres (we are walking the dogs).
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(A few) Snow flakes falling on the top of Box Hill!
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11 minutes ago, Wimbledon88 said:
Great shot mate!!
Yes,reckon that was the one we were under here just now.
It was a still from a video so cheating a bit. It was never really overhead here, just rumbled to the south west and then the north east! Best storm we have had though (we have had one night with three loud rumbles of thunder all summer).
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Over the ENE from east Dorking
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Thunder and lightning to the north east of Dorking and this to the west
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Second picture going under and first picture coming out the other side!
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7 minutes ago, FlightlessWings said:
Flash o’ lightning followed by a distant rumble of thunder in Dorking
Six flashes and rumbles and counting. Double the amount we have had this year so far
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Flash o’ lightning followed by a distant rumble of thunder in Dorking
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3 minutes ago, abruzzi spur said:
Understandable!
Reigate - our 2 minutes of rain has fizzled out, about 6 miles east of you. The sky still looks really threatening and the humidity is still pretty high, but I'm not convinced we're going to see any storms here now.
I quite often mistake planes taking off at Gatwick for thunder! Sky’s gone all kind of atmospheric and yellowish here.
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On the edge in Dorking. About 10 drops of rain about 7pm. Nothing since then.
Edit to add this is looking WNW
SE and East Anglia general weather discussion 07/11/2018
in Regional
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Yeah, we really did. I can confirm we have snow down here at 60m asl